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Your Religious Status

Atheist

Age

47-52

The religion you left

Was never a part of one

Why you left your religion.

As early as 7 or 8 years old I realized that the Christian teachings - bible stories about Adam and Eve, Noah et al were incompatible with reason and logic. You don't believe that do you? Really? At 7 or 8? - Yes. During a religious education class ( normal at that time in the UK ) I questioned the preacher giving the lesson about the story of Noah - Why would God kill all those people? New born babies, sheep, goats, 70 year old men and women who may only have done good in their lives, all killed - slaughtered by this God - it simply made no sense to me even at that age. And the response of the Minister "teaching" us? Do not question God. That was it - I knew right there, right then - this was not true.

The name of the group pretty much gives it away, I guess. European Atheists unite (yet again)! ;-) There's hundreds of thousands of us in Europe... where are all the others? Join in, let's discuss, connect and maybe we'll start another revolution.

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I understand exactly what you're saying here - or asking - and it's a perfectly reasonable question. My take on the question is this - who cares what anyone believes, if…"